Posted on 09/03/2008 10:31:20 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
For many years, reality was out of vogue with Republicans. They ignored the reality of Iraq and Katrina, of Pakistan and Osama bin Laden.
When confronted with their colossal carelessness around the globe and here at home, their mantra was, as Rummy put it, Stuff happens.
Now reality, in all its messy, crazy, funky glory, has flooded the party, in the comely, crackling form of Sarah Palin.
Unable to stop the onslaught of wild soap opera storylines erupting from the Palin family and the Alaska wilderness, McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt offered caterwauling reporters a new mantra: Life happens.
Indeed, it does. Only four days into her reign as John McCains soul mate, or Trophy Vice, as some bloggers are calling her, on the ticket known as Maverick Squared, Palin, the governor of Alaska, has already accrued two gates (Troopergate and Broken-watergate), a lawyer (for Troopergate), a future son-in-law named Levi (a high school ice hockey player, described by New York magazine as sex on skates), and a National Enquirer headline about the Teen Prego Crisis with 17-year-old daughter Bristol.
It seems like a long time since Vice President Dan Quayle denounced Murphy Brown for having a baby out of wedlock, bemoaning a poverty of values. It also seems like a long time and another McCain ago that Republicans supporting W. smeared the old John McCain by spreading rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate black child.
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The “Vogue” cover is Photoshopped.
MoDo is a typical Whitey, bitter and clingy.
I thought it probably was, but I still like it. Sort of like the fake cover I have of myself on Ski Magazine when I was 21.
Well Maureen,
It seems that you want to play “hardball”.
Just where have you been secretly at nights, or what have you been doing under the cover of darkness? I do suppose you have no vices, right? You lilly-white people make me sick, that you are so pure and innocent. You are a low life pissant,beautiful slease.
Bullfrog
I like the multiple nuances in the title.
Here’s how I’ve been bumping Sarah Palin threads today.
Sung to the tune of Oh! Susanna, dont you cry for me.
Oh, no Bama, please dont lie to me... for Im off to Free Republic with a keyboard on my knee.
I come from Minnesota with my keyboard on my knee;
Im goin to Free Republic my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Obama dont you lie.
Oh! No Bama, dont you lie to me;
I come from Minnesota,
with my keyboard on my knee.
I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Obama dear,
A-coming down the hill.
The smearing lie was in Duluth,
The tear was in his eye,
Said I, Im coming for the truth
Obama dont you lie.
Oh! No Bama, dont you lie to me;
Im off to Free Republic,
with my keyboard on my knee.
I fight in my pajamas
Its plain for all to see
I aim to be the next Buckhead
The media all hate me.
I fell in love with Sarah
When my sister bit a moose
The Guvnors family ate it up
And then they set it loose.
Oh! No Bama, dont you lie to me;
Im off to Free Republic,
with my keyboard on my knee.
I soon will be in Hawaii,
And then Ill look all round,
And when I find his birth record,
Ill fall upon the ground.
But if I do not find it,
This Freeperll surely die,
And when Im dead and buried,
Obama dont you lie.
Oh! No Bama, dont you cry for me;
Im off to Free Republic with a keyboard on my knee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2073903/posts?page=6#6
No, it didn't.
Thanks for setting that straight. That is another example of a lie being told so often, that in people's minds, it becomes the truth.
I was here then. Still don't remember it.
I do remember the flap that McCain raised about the "religious right" at the time, however.
Don't need to. She is rumored to check the FR threads that mention her, so she will see them eventually.
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